Bacon is just wonderful and homemade bacon is even better so let's make some.
For today's cook I'm taking this skinless pork belly and turning it into
an incredible bacon when choosing the pork belly just make sure that you try
to get one that has the most amount of meat if your pork belly comes with skin
just remove it in and take it out and make beautiful chicharones with it now
the first thing we need to do is make a brine and it is extremely simple.
Remember exact amount of the description down below.
I started off with 50% sugar
and 50% salt
Then to make it sweet I added a little bit of maple syrup.
To give it an Asian twist I added ponzu sauce. Ponzu sauce is
like a citrus dressing sauce, it is fantastic and for me goes well with anything.
I'm also going to be using curing pink salt now to me it gives a unique curing
flavor and he also makes your bacon last longer. If you're thinking about eating
your bacon right away and not storing any you don't have to use it but I'm not
only making it for me but I want to make my family members happy as well so I'm
giving some away. Now there's left to do is mix it well and our brine is done.
After applying the brine mix all I have to do is put it in a plastic bag and let
it rest in the refrigerator between five to seven days
After brining it I quickly removed it from the package and drained all the liquids
It is important to wash it right after because if not it will be
extremely salty make sure you rinse it well. After patting it dry you can really
tell the difference between colors you'll notice that the brine penetrated deeply
into the meat that's a good sign. Now that we have this beautiful bacon ready
it is time to smoke it. My goal is to keep the temperature as low as possible
I am using a mix of Applewood and Fogo charcoal and to ensure that I keep the
temperature as low as possible I am using the Slow and Sear.
But enough talking so let's do it!
Once the internal temperature of a hundred an d fifty five degrees
Fahrenheit was reached my bacon was ready
I must warn you at this point your house will have a wonderful smell.
Now all there's left to do is cut it in thin slices. When cutting the bacon it is
important to use a proper knife. Once I cut it open I was amazed how wonderful
it looked and smelled.There are very few things in life that smell better than
homemade bacon, I wish you could smell this.
You should cut your bacon as thick as you want but for me to make sandwiches I
like to cut a little bit extra thick.
And there you have it homemade bacon the best bacon you'll ever eat in your life
I guarantee you. One of the wonderful things about making homemade bacon is
that you can give some away this is better than chocolate, ten times better
than a bouquet of flowers and a million times better than a gift card so when
you make bacon be sure to share it with your family members. Now because I used
the pink salt it will last a lot longer in my refrigerator if I didn't use that
being salt just ensure to remove all the air out of the bacon package. But now it
is the best part I am making the best BLT sandwich you ever seen in your life.
So let's do it!
I'm cooking this bacon at 450 degrees Fahrenheit
As you can see after 20 minutes the bacon was ready but I like mine extra
crispy in the edges so I let it go for a little longer
For my sandwich I started with toasted bread, a little bit of mayo, threw in some
leafy lettuce, that wonderful homemade bacon, thin slices of tomatoes, then I
season it with freshly ground black pepper and salt and I finish it off by
crowning my sandwich with a beautiful toasted buttery bread.
For Angel's sandwich it is very simple I started off by removing the crispy ends
and I made sure I added enough bacon and Iberico cheese and I finish it off with
some sweet ham and more Iberico cheese.
All right everybody we got our beautiful sandwiches here.
Now let me tell you something
No, no, no we don't have our beautiful sandwiches here.
What do you mean?
We're missing one.
Well there was a little problem there, nevermind.
A little problem?
Let me show you guys what really happened look at this.
Dude, hello!
What are you doing? You take too long! I take too long ? It's so good! You too quick what is this
what are you doing here. We don't even have a mic. Stop it we're gonna make your
sandwich, stop recording.
Can you believe this guy listen I he took too long sometimes he
takes forever he's like let me adjust the camera let me make it look nice, I'm
hungry bro, I'm hungry! Does that sound familiar?
Wow!
Alright listen let me tell you something real quick you know how the ends, I called these
bacon burnt ends whatever it is that you want to call it these little bits are my
favorite part I know you don't like them because you asked them out. Thats all you.
This is like bacon potato chips everybody I love it make it on the
barbecue because it produces this so I definitely recommend it you not so much
He always does it too, and I'm like bro just cut it off you think no it's good
you're gonna like it go eat it. It's like chips but they are it is incredible enough
talking are you ready to try your sandwich? I'm ready, are you ready to try your sandwich
again? I only had one bro, that's messed up. But you were supposed to
try it on camera bro. I know, I know sorry
guys, well. I'm gonna go over here. I'll try it again, go for it Angel. I'm gonna try it for
the first time ever. They're gonna get your real reaction go. You're gonna get a
real reaction out of me unlike somebody I don't know. An original reaction. Cheers guys mmm, mmm
I can't believe you don't like lettuce tomatoes man you just like meat and
cheese huh? But I gotta have a little bit of my
chips on the side. Wow that bacon,
I don't know I think you just cut it to the correct thickness. yeah its like
it's not thin, so its not like, when you bite it its a good
a good texture. Exactly it's a thick thick bacon that's how I like it.
That's the good thing about making bacon at home everybody it's real smoked first of all
a lot of times when you buy it on the supermarket they use the liquid smoke
when you're doing at home you're getting the real deal I don't think there is
bacon like this that you can buy in the supermarket. No. Maybe on a custom butcher
shop you could buy it but this is worth doing, it's more work I understand the
convenience of just going on the store and getting it but once in a while
this is rewarding. Wow it's amazing. On top of that not to say that this is the
best type of present that you can give during the holidays, during Christmas
during Hanukkah, during any time, do your birthday, Mother's Day Father's Day, it
does not matter ever ybod y everyone will enjoy a bacon gift. Dude um I'm gonna
take my little bag. I know I made one for you. For my mom.
I should make more you can never ever make
enough bacon. Anyway guys thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed
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thank you so much for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.
Can you try mine? No Im ok. I'm gonna try yours. Of course you are!
i'ma try yours. Ofcourse! Because, because I'm
gonna see if it's better than mine or not. Because you know it is because mine
is made for men!
it makes you feel like an animal like a primal animal. Bro yours
is good but mine is better because I like that texture and flavor of the
tomato and the lettuce and the mayo nice put meat cheese bread that's it. You have
to be a carnivore you have to be like a lion. Best part
for me, best part. You're being a lion right now. I know it looks like it's
burned I know it looks dark a lot of my family members don't like it but I like it
Bro, listen the best, look Im gonna teach something, look you grab
the little bits and then you just roll it like this like that see that like
doing like that you wanna try it okay it's not like a little vegan yeah. what did
you call me? A vegan, are you vegan now? what you call me? You're vegan now? Look look
got green you've been getting used to it huh? Guys I gotta stop the camera
somebody's about to go down!